The Third Annual International Research Conference of the University of Ghana College of Humanities opened in Accra on Tuesday to foster interdisciplinary research in the pursuit of academic and national development. The three-day conference, on the theme: “Humanities Research and the New Waves of Globalisation,” will discuss ways of creating the right synergies and partnerships … Read more
France will end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of an ambitious plan to meet its targets under the Paris climate accord, Emmanuel Macron’s government has announced. The announcement comes a day after Volvo said it would only make fully electric or hybrid cars from 2019 onwards, a decision hailed as the beginning … Read more
A notorious Central American street gang famed for its heavily tattooed members and torturing its victims has now established its self across the United States. As well as shootings, MS-13 is known to kill its victims with baseball bats and machetes. Police and federal investigators believe they have a presence in 40 states as well … Read more
For a president obsessed with deporting “bad hombres” from the United States, the Latino street gang known as MS-13 is the perfect target. Known for its horrific murders, in which victims are set upon with machetes and baseball bats, it has a reach that now extends from its base in Central America into 40 US … Read more
Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test self-driving car technology, the companies said. Waymo and Lyft are joining forces against ridesharing giant Uber, which is racing to develop its own self-driving vehicles. Many other companies such as German carmaker Daimler and California-based Tesla have … Read more
The National Service Scheme (NSS), has ordered personnel on government payroll to validate their particulars with the scheme or risk forfeiting their allowances. A statement issued by the Executive Director of the Scheme, Mustapha Ussif on Tuesday, said the validation comes as a follow-up exercise to their reforms in the E-zwich payment system. The statement … Read more
Twitter said Tuesday it suspended 376,890 accounts in the second half of 2016 for “promotion of terrorism,” an increase of 60 percent over the prior six-month period. The latest suspensions bring the total number of blocked accounts to 636,248 from August 2015, when Twitter stepped up efforts to curb “violent extremism,” the company announced as … Read more
The White House clashed with environmentalists over President Donald Trump’s retreat from tough future auto emission standards, with both sides predicting potentially big consequences for America’s car fleet. Appearing in Detroit, Trump ordered a review of the Obama administration’s decision in January to finalize stiff fuel economy standards for the 2022-2025 period. Trump cast his … Read more
By Deborah Apetorgbor, GNA Accra, Jan. 14, GNA – If you subscribe to the notion that statistics play a significant role in the central dynamics of development indicators, then paying triune attention to accumulated numerical data is sine qua non. Though subject to debate, it is logical to state that the Ghana’s relatively slow pace … Read more
The objective behind the writing of this article is stem from the kind of thesis and dissertation channeled by most social science student in their doctorial and MPhil studies currently. Almost all the doctorial papers I supervised late December 2016 up to date in the area of macroeconomics, microeconomics and financial economics had common characteristics … Read more
“Infrastructure is both the backbone for the economy but also the motherboard for technological innovation. Without adequate infrastructure, Africa’s economies cannot realise their full potential. The continent’s low economic performance and weak integration into the global economy is in part a result of inadequate infrastructure—mainly energy, transportation, telecommunications, water and sanitation, and irrigation.” (American-based Kenyan … Read more
The main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) intends marching to the premises of the Electoral Commission to demand the list of proxy voters ahead of the 7 December polls. The party’s Director of Elections, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah told Class News that the march has become necessary because the EC has refused the release the list … Read more
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world’s smallest machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa will share the 8m kronor (£727,000) prize for the design and synthesis of machines on a molecular scale. They were named at a press conference in Sweden. The machines conceived … Read more
My first time of understanding the word propaganda was in George Owell’s dystopian novel: 1984. In that novel the main protagonist: Wiston Smith, was in charge of propaganda and in his capacity as a worker at the ministry of truth, his responsibilities included reversing history by rewriting newspapers to support his party line. The impeccable … Read more
At the send-off dinner for Prof. Ernest Aryeetey on Friday July 29, 2016 at the Great Hall of the university, climaxing the farewell programme for the former Vice Chancellor, the immediate past Chairman of the Council of the university, Justice Prof. S. K. Date-Bah, remarked, appropriately that the University of Ghana had been lucky to … Read more
All the leaders who have ruled Ghana, apart from the military dictators, had university degrees. All of them either lived or studied abroad. The current President, John Dramani Mahama, for example, attended Achimota College and Ghana Secondary School in Tamale where he obtained the Ordinary and Advanced level certificates respectively. He continued to the University … Read more
All the leaders who have ruled Ghana, apart from the military dictators, had university degrees. All of them either lived or studied abroad. The current President, John Dramani Mahama, for example, attended Achimota College and Ghana Secondary School in Tamale where he obtained the Ordinary and Advanced level certificates respectively. He continued to the University … Read more
And the week came to pass…phew and so are the divisive comments from a Professor called Adei. I last checked it was this same individual in 2007, who wanted to appropriate professorial status for non-conduct of research in academia; was hauled to court for fake professorship and later acquitted. What’s troubling this time around is … Read more
The Paramount chief of Sefwi Anwhiaso Ogyeahoho Yaw Gyebi, has asked the presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akuffo-Addo, to consider bringing back the four-year duration for Senior High Schools if he’s given the nod in the December general elections. The Chief made the appeal on Wednesday, when Nana Addo commenced … Read more
Researchers at Bilkent University in Turkey showed 300 men silhouettes of women’s bodies and asked to rank them in order of preference. They found that the men were most attracted to women whose spines curved exactly 45 degrees above the top of their butts, but that the men were actually more attracted to the spinal … Read more